Our “secret” to going to Temple Square has been to go after Christmas, but that did not work this year at all.  It was so busy and so cold.  Bummer.  But still as beautiful as ever! I know it’s horribly blurry, but Bailey really wanted to keep touching the temple and Dillon was too fast…

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I so love Christmas morning when the kids get up and are so darn excited they can hardly stand it!  I’m pretty sure Carson was up at 6:30 but no one else was so he waited and Dillon and I got to sleep in until 7:30.  Pretty good for Christmas morning!  If they had a…

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Christmas Eve afternoon was spent at Rachelle’s house for a great program and dinner.  It was a lot of fun and I wish I wasn’t lazy and had taken out my camera, but I didn’t.  I always like it because we sing a lot and have neat stories told and it’s a spiritual program.    Once…

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Is that this little cutie can peel them all by herself. 

Grandma Rita gave us a corn (white hominy) warmer for Christmas and my kids love it!  So I told them they could each make our own.  Devon was especially excited!  You can get the white hominy at Winco for $0.52/lb.  Yay!  We might have to make some for Christmas presents one year as they would…

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ha ha!  Bet you weren’t expecting this next one ;). 

We invited our friends over to make some gingerbread men this year.  My kids were looking forward to having them over for a couple weeks and were beyond excited.  (and hello—can we say obviously messing around with my manual settings since none of them look like they were taken in the same lighting!  Oh well…practice…

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(I’m not finished posting about Hawaii, but Karl is busy and has a bunch of pics I took on his camera for the day I’m waiting to post, so you aren’t getting out of it, it’s just postponed!) No tears for Santa this year! Carson wants Hagrid’s Hut legos.  This smile is what his answer…

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